"Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting."

Proverb on wish and wishing
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"Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women."

Astor, Lady Nancy on women
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"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."

Einstein, Albert on truth
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"We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on love
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"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

Everett, Douglas on ability
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"Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I."

Levant, Oscar on psychiatry
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"It's not what your are, it's what you don't become that hurts."

Levant, Oscar on regret
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"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on greatness
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"Boredom: the desire for desires."

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"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."

Levant, Oscar on insanity
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"When it gets dark enough you can see the stars."

Salk, Lee on adversity
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"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on compensation
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"Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on friends and friendship
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"There are no rewards or punishments -- only consequences."

Inge, Dean William R. on consequences
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"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do."

Hubbard, Elbert on decisions
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"Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?"

Franklin, Benjamin on deception
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"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."

Franklin, Benjamin on desire
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"If you desire many things, many things will seem few."

Franklin, Benjamin on desire
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"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

Franklin, Benjamin on expectation
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"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is."

Ackerman, Diane on love
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"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time."

Kettering, Charles F. on peace
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